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[ Ibid. I., 139-144.]
4212 ([return])
[ Decree of September 27, 1790. "The circulation of assignats shall not extend beyond one billion two hundred millions.... Those which are paid in shall be destroyed and there shall be no other creation or emission of them, without a decree of the Corps Legislatif, always subject to this condition that they shall not exceed the value of the national possessions nor obtain a circulation above one billion two hundred millions.]
4213 ([return])
[ Schmidt, ibid., I., 104, 138, 144.]
4214 ([return])
[ Felix Rocquam, "L'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire," p.240. (Report by Lacuée, year IX.—Reports by préfets under the Consulate (Reports of Laumont, préfet of the Lower-Rhine, year X.; of Coichen, préfet of the Moselle, year XI., etc.)—Schmidt, Pariser Zustände," III., 205. ("The rate of interest during the Revolution was from four to five per cent. per month; in 1796 from six to eight per cent. per month, the lowest rate being two per cent. per month with security.")]
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[ Arthur Young, "Voyage en France," II., 360. (Fr. translation.) "I regard Bordeaux as richer and more commercial than any city in England except London.">[